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Summary of the Pull Request

This PR improves icons for app items:

  • Refactors icon detection and selection from the AppX manifest out of UWPApplication
  • Prefer unplated UWP app logos so icons no longer appear smaller than expected
  • Adds an icon loader based on IShellItemImageFactory to correctly load large icons
  • Jumbo icons loaded from shortcuts are now crisp
  • Jumbo icons loaded from shortcuts are no longer scaled down
  • Refactors detail loading in AppListItem to prevent potential deadlocks
  • Makes PWA icons more crisp
  • Fixes fallback item (now it gets used not only when the icon is null, but also when it's empty).
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Fix UWP app icons and add jumbo icon support
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- Refactor detection and selection of icons in Appx manifest out of UWPApplication class
- Add icon loader based on IShellItemImageFactory to correctly load larger icons
- Refactor loading of details in AppListItem to prevent deadlock
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What’s left:

  • The lazy loading of the details pane isn’t ideal -- it causes a brief flash when the hero icon loads and pushes the title out of place. This might be better addressed via IDetails2. But it's fishy... 🐟
    • Still fishy, but it actually happens in the current version as well 🎣
  • Apps that expose additional issues:
    • Apple iCloud app – Uses culture-specific asset folders, which we don’t support yet at all.
    • 1Password – The manifest specifies Square44x44Logo="PRODUCTION\Square44x44LogoPRODUCTION.png", but the file actually lives at images\PRODUCTION\Square44x44LogoPRODUCTION.png.

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CmdPal: Remove deadlock bait from AppListItem (#45076)
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR removes a Task.Wait() call from lazy-loading AppListItem details
that could be invoked on the UI thread and lead to a deadlock.

It now follows the same pattern previously used for loading icons in the
same class, which has proven to work well.

Prevents #44938 from stepping on this landmine.

Cherry-picked from #44973.

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CmdPal: Remove deadlock bait from AppListItem (#45076)
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR removes a Task.Wait() call from lazy-loading AppListItem details
that could be invoked on the UI thread and lead to a deadlock.

It now follows the same pattern previously used for loading icons in the
same class, which has proven to work well.

Prevents #44938 from stepping on this landmine.

Cherry-picked from #44973.

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- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
- [ ] [JSON for
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for new binaries
- [ ] [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
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- [ ] [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
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CmdPal: Remove deadlock bait from AppListItem (#45076)
3e4bb44 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR removes a Task.Wait() call from lazy-loading AppListItem details
that could be invoked on the UI thread and lead to a deadlock.

It now follows the same pattern previously used for loading icons in the
same class, which has proven to work well.

Prevents #44938 from stepping on this landmine.

Cherry-picked from #44973.

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- [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass
- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
- [ ] [JSON for
signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json)
for new binaries
- [ ] [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder
- [ ] [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
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…part 2 (#44973)

<!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it
fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)?
-->
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR improves icons for app items:
- Refactors icon detection and selection from the AppX manifest out of
`UWPApplication`
- Prefer *unplated* UWP app logos so icons no longer appear smaller than
expected
- Adds an icon loader based on `IShellItemImageFactory` to correctly
load large icons
- Jumbo icons loaded from shortcuts are now crisp
- Jumbo icons loaded from shortcuts are no longer scaled down
- Refactors detail loading in `AppListItem` to prevent potential
deadlocks
- Makes PWA icons more crisp
- Fixes fallback item (now it gets used not only when the icon is null,
but also when it's empty).

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- [ ] [JSON for
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for new binaries
- [ ] [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder
- [ ] [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
for new test projects
- [ ] [YML for signed
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- [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request
on [our docs
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